Article: Why is Microsoft attacking the GPL?

[Rodney Kanno]

So do you think the GPL is in any danger?

Rodney


On Thursday 28 June 2001 02:20 pm, you wrote:
> http://noframes.linuxjournal.com/articles/currents/0032.html
>
> (from the article)
> Why the GPL Threatens Microsoft's Core Business Model
>   a.. * Microsoft can't play its "embrace and extend" game with
> GPL-licensed software because the company can't appropriate and modify the
> code. If Linux had been released under the BSD license, Microsoft would
> have probably already released a version of Linux, Linux++ or Linux# or
> L-Nux, with a variety of maddeningly incompatible oddities that taken
> together would make it even more difficult to develop applications for
> Linux. b.. * A GPL-licensed application pool is indeed forming around
> Linux, and Microsoft can't figure out how to attack it. You can't attack
> the companies, because--as Eazel recently proved--the software's still
> around, even if the company shuts down or gives up on the product.
>
>
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